At 12.15pm Ciaran Cuffe posted on his blog with reflections on the last two weeks in Irish politics. An hour or so later the word on Trevor Sargent’s error of judgement emerged. By 5.00pm Trevor had resigned. Trevor Sargent resignation speech from Alexia Golez on Vimeo. Having listened to his interview on Six One News […]
In a new series on Maman Poulet, from time to time I’ll be bringing you snapshots of backbench TD’s you may never have heard of unless you are from their neck of the woods and well even then you may not know them! First up is James Bannon – a Fine Gael TD for Longford […]
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The other word of the day yesterday in addition to Twitter was Bounce Let’s turn to Maman Poulet’s political terminology dictionary (a fictional entity for the moment!) Definition: Fianna Fáil manoeuvre to get reluctant/confused junior partners into vote on sticky issue as quickly as possible before they can think for themselves Being Bounced and not […]
Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly. It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned […]
Green Party elected officials seem to be having problems with their consciences at the moment. And indeed it’s not only Deirdre de Burca who is calling John Gormley’s leadership into question. As I said on Friday there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that has very little to do with Willie O’Dea. The […]